Describing Words
This tool helps you find adjectives for things that you're trying to describe. Also check out ReverseDictionary.org and RelatedWords.org.
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Words to Describe district
Below is a list of describing words for district. You can sort the descriptive words by uniqueness or commonness using the button above. Sorry if there's a few unusual suggestions! The algorithm isn't perfect, but it does a pretty good job for most common nouns. Here's the list of words that can be used to describe district:
- particular dead-end
- central civic
- traditional red-light
- fifth congressional
- single congressional
- roos-senekal
- black red-light
- well-lighted commercial
- old red-light
- twelfth congressional
- beautiful but rather wild
- remote and backward agricultural
- remarkable red-light
- second congressional
- probable central
- entirely new and remote
- new viminal
- dark and sleepy
- notorious red-light
- federal western
- eastern judicial
- second judicial
- eleventh congressional
- twelfth naval
- nineteenth congressional
- eighteenth judicial
- clean and verdant
- ordinary congressional
- disreputable retail
- wonderful and agricultural
- local red-light
- beastly healthy
- south-eastern postal
- west-central postal
- sinister financial
- out-of-the-way mountainous
- next loyal
- whole, damn
- populous fertile
- manchioneal
- compact and healthy
- twelfth judicial
- low-lying, flat
- mountainous but fertile
- epifocal
- nineteenth municipal
- important magisterial
- eighth judicial
- same prefectural
- tiny, squalid
- horrible swampy
- remote and very rural
- wide murky
- splendid woodland
- local politics--rural
- red-light
- dry industrial
- barbarous and barren
- unsavory and unsafe
- whole red-light
- barren, agricultural
- central governmental
- overcrowded northern
- depressing industrial
- neatly modern
- moynal
- bookish and poetical
- pleasant extensive
- sechamschal
- northern postal
- populous and very poor
- fourth judicial
- dark wholesale
- peculiarly barren and rocky
- western unexplored
- preponderantly industrial
- fruitful and tolerably populous
- tolerably populous
- populous but healthy
- great coal-mining
- comparatively rural
- former luxurious
- fertile agricultural
- former high-rise
- snobbish residential
- official red-light
- bland residential
- walled jewish
- bustling financial
- good sarcastic
- bleak but decent
- dead residential
- federal historic
- rich agricultural
- colored red-light
- drab, working-class
- relatively temperate and tolerant
- legal red-light
- densest and most unhealthy
- ancient and mountainous
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Describing Words
The idea for the Describing Words engine came when I was building the engine for Related Words (it's like a thesaurus, but gives you a much broader set of related words, rather than just synonyms). While playing around with word vectors and the "HasProperty" API of conceptnet, I had a bit of fun trying to get the adjectives which commonly describe a word. Eventually I realised that there's a much better way of doing this: parse books!
Project Gutenberg was the initial corpus, but the parser got greedier and greedier and I ended up feeding it somewhere around 100 gigabytes of text files - mostly fiction, including many contemporary works. The parser simply looks through each book and pulls out the various descriptions of nouns.
Hopefully it's more than just a novelty and some people will actually find it useful for their writing and brainstorming, but one neat little thing to try is to compare two nouns which are similar, but different in some significant way - for example, gender is interesting: "woman" versus "man" and "boy" versus "girl". On an inital quick analysis it seems that authors of fiction are at least 4x more likely to describe women (as opposed to men) with beauty-related terms (regarding their weight, features and general attractiveness). In fact, "beautiful" is possibly the most widely used adjective for women in all of the world's literature, which is quite in line with the general unidimensional representation of women in many other media forms. If anyone wants to do further research into this, let me know and I can give you a lot more data (for example, there are about 25000 different entries for "woman" - too many to show here).
The blueness of the results represents their relative frequency. You can hover over an item for a second and the frequency score should pop up. The "uniqueness" sorting is default, and thanks to my Complicated Algorithm™, it orders them by the adjectives' uniqueness to that particular noun relative to other nouns (it's actually pretty simple). As you'd expect, you can click the "Sort By Usage Frequency" button to adjectives by their usage frequency for that noun.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source mongodb which was used in this project.
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